It's All Love

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of a new anthology. Now, this is me taking off my fantasist hat and stepping back to my earlier days as a writer of literary fiction - often with an African-American focus. That's exactly what this anthology features. It's called It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends, edited by Marita Golden.

Here's the jacket copy:

In It's All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in "My Own Happy Ending"; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls "Learning the Name Dad," writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better; New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching "Missing You"; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his 'An Act of Faith"; New York Times bestselling author L. A. Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love as a child, "Two Cents and a Question." And the poetry of love is here, too - from Gwendolyn Brooks's classic "Black Wedding Song" to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander. It's All Love is a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love.

I'm very happy to be included. My story, by the way, was inspired by some tales my mother told me about meeting my father. It's not their story, but it's a fiction prompted by a few elements of their story. Because of that it's quite important to me. Also, the publication is a fundraiser for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. May it raise much funds!